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25 years ago I had a 60 gallon cube with my usual favs. But life gets in the way and I let it go to a friend of mine. Fast forward 25 years and I have my new dream tank. ( Actually my dream tank is way bigger, but this is a great start) lol.
I managed to sell enough paintings to finally get the tank and stand. It also happened to go on sale right about than. It came with the usual standard lights. Btw, this is a bare basics tank. Prior to getting the tank, I had been buying coral skeletons and sea fan skeletons, along with the dry rock.
Purchased the following:
6-8 bags of Hawaiian black caribsea live sand. ( Can't remember how many it was. Enough for a 2" substrate).
2 double head power heads.
2 hob marineland bio filters for 75 gallon tanks.
1 air pump and long air stone.
1 API master test kit for saltwater
Bottle of prime, bucket of IO salt, bottle of pure ammonia, putty for use in water and gorilla gel glue.
Also bought a few other test kits and vitamin,selcon etc.
We found out that a 6 ft aquarium fits in a Ford escape, if you're the passenger, you're not going to be comfortable on the ride home.
My friend also bought a sunken ship decoration for the tank.
I can't find the pictures of the tank sitting empty and dry for the first month.
So the pictures start after the tank was cycled. During the cycle after the ammonia went to zero I would do a bigger dose of ammonia every morning and by that evening it was zeroed out again. Kept doing that until the day before the first critters arrived.
Critters that have gone into the tank are:
CUC
Brittle stars
Assorted snails
A condy, a RFA.. common color, and a ultra green polyp coral.
The fish include: my baby--- a pinnatus batfish. 1 " on arrival and now over 7" fin to fin.
3 mandrins, 1 male and 2 females.
1 Hippo tang,
1 Royal Gramma
2 ocellaris clowns
Ok more later, with more details and pictures !
I managed to sell enough paintings to finally get the tank and stand. It also happened to go on sale right about than. It came with the usual standard lights. Btw, this is a bare basics tank. Prior to getting the tank, I had been buying coral skeletons and sea fan skeletons, along with the dry rock.
Purchased the following:
6-8 bags of Hawaiian black caribsea live sand. ( Can't remember how many it was. Enough for a 2" substrate).
2 double head power heads.
2 hob marineland bio filters for 75 gallon tanks.
1 air pump and long air stone.
1 API master test kit for saltwater
Bottle of prime, bucket of IO salt, bottle of pure ammonia, putty for use in water and gorilla gel glue.
Also bought a few other test kits and vitamin,selcon etc.
We found out that a 6 ft aquarium fits in a Ford escape, if you're the passenger, you're not going to be comfortable on the ride home.
My friend also bought a sunken ship decoration for the tank.
I can't find the pictures of the tank sitting empty and dry for the first month.
So the pictures start after the tank was cycled. During the cycle after the ammonia went to zero I would do a bigger dose of ammonia every morning and by that evening it was zeroed out again. Kept doing that until the day before the first critters arrived.
Critters that have gone into the tank are:
CUC
Brittle stars
Assorted snails
A condy, a RFA.. common color, and a ultra green polyp coral.
The fish include: my baby--- a pinnatus batfish. 1 " on arrival and now over 7" fin to fin.
3 mandrins, 1 male and 2 females.
1 Hippo tang,
1 Royal Gramma
2 ocellaris clowns
Ok more later, with more details and pictures !
